Mediated Learning
Mediated Learning/Dynamic Assessment is a special type of interaction in which one person helps another relate ideas in a way that leads to flexibility in thinking and learning. It is a dynamic interaction with others (i.e. adult, child) that facilitates learning how to learn. This enables the learner to increase their level of thinking, which promotes higher order learning. Mediated Learning's guiding principle is that all children can learn and all learners can change and grow.
The purpose of Mediated Learning is to improve the academic achievement and behavior of the learner. This is done by creating a classroom environment that facilitates the enhancement of learning potential for all individuals through systematic, organized, and focused activities. This fosters changes in the delivery of instruction, learning, and socialization patterns. As a result, limitations can be overcome and higher levels of thinking development can be achieved.
Goals
- To increase M.E.A.P. scores and test taking skills.
- To improve the process of obtaining, retaining, and analyzing information.
- To assist students to use the skills of persistence, motivation, effort, problem solving, and cooperation.
Strategies - Developed by Dr. Feuerstein "In and Out of the Classroom"
- Building relationships with the learner and their environment.
- Connecting learning with life experience.
- Giving purpose and meaning to the learning experience.
- Offering detailed praise to the learner.
- Showing the learner when and where to use different kinds of thinking
The Mediated Learning Team also works with the LSCO to coordinate parent workshops, informational sessions, and speakers. In addition, Parent as Mediator workshops are facilitated for several weeks to teach parents how to be more active mediators in their child's education.
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